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Yoshua Bengio

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Yoshua Bengio is a Canadian computer scientist and a pioneer of artificial neural networks and deep learning. He received the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award, often called the Nobel Prize of computing, together with Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun for their foundational work on deep learning, and the three are sometimes called the Godfathers of AI. Bengio is a professor at the Universite de Montreal and founded Mila, the Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute, serving as its scientific director until 2025. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Birth Year
1964 1
Birth Date
1964-03-05 2
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1. Yoshua Bengio (Wikidata)
  • P569 (date of birth): year 1964
    1964
  • Wikidata P166: VinFuture Prize
    Wikidata P166 (award received): VinFuture Prize.
  • Wikidata P166: Knight of the Legion of Honour
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Knight of the Legion of Honour.
  • Wikidata P166: Lifetime Achievement Award of the Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Lifetime Achievement Award of the Canadian Artificial Intelligence Association.
  • Wikidata P166: IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Award
    Wikidata P166 (award received): IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Award.
  • Wikidata P166: Officer of the Order of Canada
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Officer of the Order of Canada.
  • Wikidata P166: Officer of the National Order of Quebec
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Officer of the National Order of Quebec.
  • Wikidata P166: Fellow of the Royal Society
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Fellow of the Royal Society.
  • Wikidata P166: Turing Award
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Turing Award.
  • Wikidata P166: ACM Fellow
    Wikidata P166 (award received): ACM Fellow.
  • Wikidata P166: AAAI Fellow
    Wikidata P166 (award received): AAAI Fellow.
  • Wikidata P166: Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.
  • Wikidata P166: Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Princess of Asturias Award for Technical and Scientific Research.
  • Wikidata P166: Prix Marie-Victorin
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Prix Marie-Victorin.
  • Wikidata P166: Acfas Urgel-Archambeault Award
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Acfas Urgel-Archambeault Award.
  • Wikidata P166: Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering.
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2. Wikipedia: Yoshua Bengio
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